Open space may refer to:
- In urban planning and conservation ethics
- Landscape, areas of land without human-built structures
- Open space reserve, areas of protected or conserved land on which development is indefinitely set aside
- Urban open space, urban areas of protected or conserved land on which development is indefinitely set aside
- Greenway (landscape), a linear chain of open space reserves or a recreational corridor through the same
- Public space, areas left open for the use of the public, such as a piazza, plaza, park, and courtyard
- In business terminology
- A procedure for conducting a business conference:
- Open Space Technology
- Open-space meeting
- Other uses
- Open Space (band), an indie rock band from Minsk, Belarus
- Open Space (BBC TV) BBC TV programme produced by their Community Programme Unit
- Open Space Theatre, a defunct London theatre run by Charles Marowitz
- Open Space (publications), a music publishing collective
Famous quotes containing the words open and/or space:
“Each man has his own vocation. The talent is the call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him. He has faculties silently inviting him thither to endless exertion. He is like a ship in the river; he runs against obstructions on every side but one; on that side all obstruction is taken away, and he sweeps serenely over a deepening channel into an infinite sea.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“The limitless future of childhood shrinks to realistic proportions, to one of limited chances and goals; but, by the same token, the mastery of time and space and the conquest of helplessness afford a hitherto unknown promise of self- realization. This is the human condition of adolescence.”
—Peter Blos (20th century)